I'm a bestselling novelist specializing in historical, military, and
espionage thrillers. My collaborations with Larry
Bond—including Red Phoenix, Vortex, Cauldron, The Enemy
Within, and Day of Wrath—have won critical
acclaim for their suspense, realism, and
unblinking appreciation of geopolitical and modern military realities. The Tribune, first published in June 2003, is
set amid the power, glory, and brutality of imperial Rome. The novel takes
readers on a rollercoaster ride through a time of enormous upheaval—a time of
great evil...and of great good.

Here's what some recent readers are saying on Amazon
about The Tribune:

* 5.0 out of 5 starsA
Fantastic Journey into the Past

The Tribune is a
powerful look into the Roman world with all its corruption and the seeds of good
and evil yet to come. You get to see the world from a simple soldier's point of
view and experience his struggle to keep his honor intact while facing the
distressing reality of powerful men who care nothing for virtue. There are a lot
of level's of interest in this book beyond the facinating excitement of actually
feeling like you are living in the world of long ago...." -- Anne Frailey

Having just completed Peter Darman's excellent 'Parthian' series I had some
serious expectations from my next read. 'The Tribune' has more than met those
expectations - it's very well written and historically sound. My only regret is
that the second volume is not available for immediate purchase." -- Gary
Westwood

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Second Korean War has begun. The Third World War may not be far behind.Red
Phoenixshows a modern war fought
on all fronts: land, sea, and air. Soldiers fight for Korea's snow-covered hills
and frozen rice paddies. F-16s race into dogfights across the 38th Parallel.
Submarines glide into battle in the otherworldly silence of the deep Pacific.
And from the hushed, anxious corridors of power in Washington, to those in
Moscow and Beijing, the growing war spreads its explosive economic and political
ripples to Europe, Japan, and the world.

"A superb
storyteller...Larry Bond seems to know everything about warfare, from the grunt
in foxhole to the fighter pilots far above the earth....Red Phoenixis
wonderfully entertaining and deserves to be the bestseller that it is." —New
York Times Book Review

If you'd like to read an even more recent review, here's one
just published by editor and writer David Marshall at his great site:
Thinking About Books

Special Deal: CAULDRON is live on Amazon, Barnes and Noble,
the Apple store, and Kobo and it's just $0.99 for a limited time only!

InCauldron,
the newly liberated states of eastern Europe are struggling to rebuild after
decades of communist misrule. As old nationalistic hatreds boil to the surface,
there are some nations eager to exploit their new economic power to satisfy
age-old and long-suppressed imperial ambitions—using military force if
necessary. While a new wave of atrocity and massacre ripples across the
Balkans, and Russia slides further into anarchy, France and Germany seize their
chance to establish themselves jointly as a single superpower dominating the
whole of Europe.

But three small countries
stand defiantly in the way of this new tyranny. As tensions soar, America and
Britain are forced to intervene, and northern Europe explodes in a war that
neither side wants, but neither side can afford to lose...

With the Eurozone in growing
crisis, the situation we first portrayed in 1993 may actually be even closer to reality than at any time since this
thriller was first published.

"Larry Bond pushes us off
a cliff, and we take that long, exhilarating fall straight to his smashing
conclusion...Cauldronis more
than Bond's extraordinary description of a technologically sophisticated war.
He has a powerful story to tell, and he uses flesh and blood characters to tell
it...stunning...sweeping." — Book Page

VORTEX is live on Amazon,
Barnes and Noble, the Apple store, and Kobo!

The political situation we portray has, thankfully, been overtaken by real-world
events, but the story we tell is still as fresh and exciting as ever.

The
world is no longer dominated by two superpowers, and the theater of war has
shifted to the Third World—but with a deadly uncertainty never known before. InVortex, the flashpoint is
South Africa, where a repressive extreme-right regime has catapulted to power,
determined to crush the slightest opposition. The result is a conflict that
will rage across the whole of southern Africa, across deserts, across the veldt,
in the cities, at sea, and in the air. It will realize many of mankind's worst
fears, including the full-scale use of both chemical and nuclear weapons. It
will raise the nightmare specter of race war, global economic collapse, and
Armageddon itself. As chaos spreads across an entire continent, the United
States mobilizes for a military campaign it cannot afford to lose.

“Military
adventure on a grand scale…Larry Bond has proven himself a master.” – Clive
Cussler, author of Dragon

DAY OF WRATHis live on
Amazon.co.uk!

The fifth thriller that Larry Bond and I wrote together is now
available as an eBook through Amazon.co.uk.
Buy it now!

As Day of Wrath opens, a plane carrying an American arms
inspection team mysteriously crashes in Russia. The warning shot has been fired.
A bold gambit to destroy America as a world power is well underway.

Its
architect is Prince Ibrahim al Saud, a member of the Middle East's most
influential royal family and the brilliant head of a multi-billion-dollar global
conglomerate. He also heads a world-wide alliance of terrorists. With his vast
wealth, he bankrolls and directs the most lethal terrorist groups on earth to
launch the most murderous attack ever conceived.

Against Ibrahim and his
allies stand two veteran American operatives readers will remember fromThe
Enemy Within: U.S. Army Colonel Peter Thorn and FBI Special Agent Helen
Gray. Together, they follow the faint traces of Ibrahim's scheme from Russia,
across Europe, and finally home to America—all while on the run from the very
people they're trying to protect...

Day of Wrathis
Larry Bond at his spellbinding best. Happily for his fans, he continues his
tradition of high adventure crafted by a master storyteller." — Clive Cussler

THE ENEMY WITHIN is live on
Amazon.co.uk!

Larry Bond and I have released our fourth thriller, The Enemy
Within, as an eBook through Amazon.co.uk. Buy it now!

The Enemy Within focuses on terrorism and counter-terrorism. And much
of the action centers around two heroes, Lieutenant Colonel Peter Thorn and FBI
Special Agent Helen Gray, who are forced to confront a ruthless and highly
intelligent enemy determined to bring the United States, and, ultimately, the
whole Western world, to its knees.

This novel(originally
published in 1996) asks a single, horrifying question: What if a rogue nation
launched a war against the United States within its own borders?

America's largest cities are in flame. Its majestic
landmarks are in ruins. Electronic sabotage cripples its far-flung
communications systems. The first waves of a meticulously orchestrated
international terrorist campaign have achieved a stunning and terrifying
success.

As grim national leaders and intelligence services
strive to search out and destroy the terrorists; as armies both with and without
uniforms mobilize to win the ultimate unconventional war, two men—once friends,
now bitter enemies—race to a decisive confrontation...

"Nonstop action...Reader's will get more than their
money's worth out of this one." — Chicago Tribune

"The most accurate, chilling novel about terrorism
ever written. When you readThe
Enemy Within, you are reading the future." — Neil C. Livingstone, author ofThe
Cult of Counterterrorism

In a nice piece of serendipity now that RED PHOENIX is out
as an eBook, GMT Games has just
released a board wargame, Next War: Korea, that gives players a chance to
test their skill as commanders in a present-day war fought on the ground, in the
air, and at sea.

InNext
War: Korea,the Korean Peninsula
is on fire with two of the world's most well-prepared, antagonistic forces
arrayed against each other. Can you, as the North Korean People’s Army
commander, conquer the South in 3 weeks before the full might of the U.S. can be
brought to bear? Can you, as the Republic of Korea’s Army commander, hold out
against the renewed Communist assault until help arrives? And what will China
do? There’s only one way to find out…

The
Lazarus Vendetta, fifth in Robert Ludlum's bestselling Covert-One series, is
a thriller pulled from today's headlines.

The Lazarus Movement, the dominant
force in the eco-conscious, "anti-technology" protest movement, has sent
rumblings down the corridors of the world's intelligence agencies. Led by a
mysterious, never-seen figure known only as Lazarus, this increasingly powerful
group is believed by some to be preparing a bold strike.

When an attack on a nano-technology
research facility leaves thousands dead—protesters and scientists alike—from
what appears to be a cloud of inadvertently released but gruesomely deadly
nanobots, pandemonium reigns. Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Smith is activated by
Covert-One to find the truth about Lazarus where all others have failed. As
Smith uncovers the frightening underpinnings of the group, he soon learns that
the Lazarus Movement is only the very tip of the iceberg in a murderous scheme
that threatens billions of lives and will forever change the nature of the world
itself.

"Larkin (The Tribune) picks up
the reins for the fifth entry in the...Covert-One series...bringing to the task
a solid intelligence, some really scary nanotechnology, and a writing style
that...always get the job done....Hand-to-hand action, intriguing science, and
plot speed will keep most techno-thriller readers nailed to their seats." —
Publisher's Weekly

"[A] fast read and sure to delight
fans of both espionage and the techno-thriller." — Booklist

First published in October 2004, The Lazarus Vendetta
is in bookstores now as a premium edition St. Martin's paperback.

The Moscow Vector, sixth in
the bestselling Covert-One series, again draws readers into a world of high-tech
espionage, international intrigue, and high-stakes action.

At an international conference in
Prague, Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith, an Army research doctor specializing in
infectious diseases and secretly an agent attached to Covert-One, is contacted
by a Russian colleague, Dr. Valentin Petrenko. Petrenko is concerned about
a a small cluster of mysterious deaths in Moscow—deaths the Russian government
is keeping secret. But when the two men meet, they are attacked.
Petrenko is killed, his notes and medical samples are lost, and Smith barely
escapes with his life.

At the same time, government and
intelligence officials around the world are coming down with an untraceable,
fast-acting virus with a 100 percent fatality rate. These deaths appear
somehow connected to the increasingly militaristic Russian government, headed by
the autocratic and ambitious President Viktor Dudarev. With few clues and
precious little time, Smith and Covert-One must unravel this plot and zero in on
the shadowy figure who stands at the center of it all.

First published in July 2005, The Moscow
Vector is in bookstores now as a St. Martin's paperback. The premium edition
St. Martin's paperback is being released in late June 2012.

"Larkin's always competent and reliable storytelling abilities
are augmented here by an ingenious weapons concept that is all the more
frightening because of its believability. Those who have never sampled a
Covert-One novel will find The Moscow Vector an excellent place to begin,
as Larkin brings Ludlum's Cold War villains full circle with a 21st century
weapon to boot. Recommended." —
Reviewed by Joe Hartlaub at Bookreporter.com.

Congratulations to the winners of the Larry Bond and Patrick Larkin Book Quiz!

For 14 days, contestants competed to identify a series of pictures of military hardware, weapons, unit badges, and places
used in some of our bestselling thrillers—Red Phoenix, Vortex, Cauldron, The
Enemy Within, and Day of Wrath! It was a real challenge for Larry and
I to try to stay ahead of their knowledge and expertise.

First place -- and a specially written and signed
action scene -- goes to Pawel Kasperek. If you'd like to read the scene Larry
and I wrote for Pawel, just click here. Second place went to Jason Leffler and
third place went to Sermon Weerts. They'll each receive a book label signed by
both of us to put in the thriller of their choice.

If you'd like to see the pictures that were
used, and see what the real answers were, just click the
Bond and Larkin Quiz Contest. And
stay tuned for our next contest.